The clergyman confronts the sinner demanding not counseling but some authoritative word of faith.
The word mashal was derived from a root that meant "to rule," and thus a proverb was conceived as an authoritative word.
All members must subscribe to a Statement of Faith that requires belief in the Bible "as the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative word of God" and commitment to a well-defined category of fundamental Christian doctrines.
But he did make it to the predawn meetings of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, a national Christian sports organization whose mission statement defines the Bible as the "authoritative Word of God".
We are led, fifthly, into an open relationship with God in prayer, which is often expressed as conversation with God, as well as through written prayers, and in the study of the Bible, which is seen as God's authoritative word – not locked up in a book, but released in our lives.
Though the book is well-documented it can't be the last or authoritative word.
Authoritative word did not reach Wriedt until 2.15 pm, by which time it was too late to withdraw the motion and instead obstruct his party's appropriation bill to hinder Fraser.
And it is because of the authoritative Word of the Bible, not in spite of it, that we can rejoice in the good fruit Scott's ministry will bring forth.
It's not necessarily the last authoritative word, but Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, whose job includes running the immigration services, said today that Sen. John McCain's birth in the Panama Canal zone does qualify him to be president.
In our board's effort to unite around the church's shared mission to serve the poor in the name of Christ, we failed to be consistent with World Vision U.S.'s commitment to the traditional understanding of Biblical marriage and our own Statement of Faith, which says, "We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God".
